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  1. Re:Did anyone else read this as on $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they'd spelled it correctly (e.g. "wall wart") without the caps and hyphen, it wouldn't have fallen into the same framework, and everyone wouldn't have read it and gone, "Linux Wal-Mart? WTF?"

    The insidious kdawson strikes again.

  2. Re:They got VNC backwards.... on Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes you can. Check out the Android VNC Viewer.

  3. Re:wtf judge? on Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    IANAL, so I'd be really curious to know if that qualifies for contempt of court in the US? Also, what is the go with that in other countries? How far can you go in criticising a judge, outside or inside of the courtroom?

  4. Flip flops? on A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops · · Score: 1

    Did anybody else read that as A Brief History of Flip Flops?

  5. Re:A stroke of genius... on Microsoft Slaps $250K Bounty On Conficker Worm · · Score: 1

    Just follow the trail of chairs.

  6. Re:That is, as the Brits say, bollocks on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    The argument has nothing to do with what an evolutionary biologist calls herself. Darwinism vs Creationism sounds, to a lay-person, like a reasonable dichotomy. Main-stream media would do well to kill the term "Darwinism".

  7. Re:oh well... on Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed · · Score: 1

    I meant sprintf()

  8. Re:oh well... on Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed · · Score: 1

    sscanf

  9. Re:the known bad addresses part seems dangerous on Name and Shame Spam Senders With OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    $ man 2 accept
    ACCEPT(2) Linux Programmerâ(TM)s Manual ACCEPT(2)

    NAME
    accept - accept a connection on a socket
    ...
    int accept(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *addrlen);
    ...
    The argument addr is a pointer to a sockaddr structure. This structure
    is filled in with the address of the peer socket, as known to the com-
    munications layer.

  10. Re:Embrace. on New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE · · Score: 3, Informative

    NetBSD is not less free. The drivers that they have written are. I don't understand why people try to confuse matters.

    The BSD license is more free for users and distributors. Derived works /may or may not/ be released under a BSD license. This has NO BEARING on the original work.

  11. Long Zheng seems like a nice bloke on Security Hole In Windows 7 UAC · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. Re:2.5D, not 3D on CMU Video Conference System Gets 3D From Cheap Webcams · · Score: 1

    My first idea in response to this was to put the camera somehow behind the display. Maybe by having a translucent display or perhaps there is some technology out there in which the display emitters could also be used as detectors.

    So I jump on to Google and it turns out Apple has already patented my idea. How did that pass the test of novelty and non-obviousness for a patent claim?

  13. Re:It's worse than that on What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You · · Score: 1

    One big win to making up your answers is that a bad guy can't use the information to break into accounts in other institutions. Even if it's sold to a third party or published on the internet, the information only works with that one account. Moreover, there's no way someone can research my family history and come up with "asawi0egh" for my mother's maiden name. (Again, generated by slapping the keyboard a few times.)

    We must be related.

  14. Re:Uhm, bandwidth? on AMD Plans 1,000-GPU Supercomputer For Games, Cloud · · Score: 1

    You don't need PCI-e bandwidth. All you are doing is transporting 2-dimensional video. We are already very good at doing that over moderate bandwidth connections.

    1-2 Mbps will do standard definition video comfortably well.

  15. Re:I am confused... on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would have though light reflected up from the ground would be non-negligible.

  16. Re:But will it scale? on Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    If you could translate side-to-side motion of the tether into upwards motion for the payload, then you could create a standing wave on the tether pretty efficiently.

    As for exerting force on the passengers, I'm sure as TFA mentions, a suspension mechanism can be designed to at least make it bearable.

    The ratcheting mechanism itself is probably the hardest part. How to make it so it survives at least one full ascension will be an interesting challenge.

    All in all, I think it is great to look at problems in different ways like this. If everyone blocks an idea before it has the chance to develop a little, then we would never innovate.

  17. Re:ESA has been doing this for years on ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox · · Score: 1

    Who would have guessed a publicly funded research organisation would contribute knowledge back to the community?

  18. Circular logic on The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 · · Score: 1

    What sort sick circular logic are you using. You want an MS Office replacement that doesn't require training. What exactly can OOo do to satisfy your requirements?

  19. Re:A Solution in Search of a Problem on Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster · · Score: 1
    This is the bit I was referring to:

    That's the key with this: Any source of true randoomness is covered in heavy physics in which if we Knew the states, we could calculate them to their final resting position.

    Out of genuine curiosity, what is the validity of that statement?

  20. Re:A Solution in Search of a Problem on Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I need to brush up on my quantum mechanics, but I'm pretty sure you're dead wrong about that final statement.

  21. Re:I think modern window systems on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    The fonts are not rendering on the GPU. Anti-aliasing is accelerated.

  22. Re:WTF ISRAEL? on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1

    Pragmatism. Violence is not working and is turning global public opinion against the Palestinian cause. The PLO has been around for a long time and have always used violence, even outside of the disputed territories. Try telling the citizens of Beirut that the Palestinian resistance was non-violent except for the last fifteen years.

  23. Re:WTF ISRAEL? on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You don't know the least of it. What the Palestinian cause lacks is a good PR campaign. A peaceful resistance movement with good global PR would do them so much more good than firing random rockets.

    Of course, then they would have to compete with the pro-Zionism lobby groups for mindshare.

  24. Re:Available in Gaza on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1
    Of course that would go straight to 5 Insightful. When you say "they managed to kill their own children" are you implying the parents fired the rockets?

    Any equally flamebait'ish post with an anti-Israeli angle would have gotten the -1 Flamebait that it would have rightfully deserved.

  25. Re:I think.. on As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" · · Score: 1
    Positive feedback.

    The fed-back input adds to the problem input to produce a larger problem output. Positive feedback results in unstable and saturating systems.

    Negative feedback is used to keep systems under control.